Hello Jonathan!
Wednesday March 04 1998 11:39, Jonathan Michaels wrote to John Aldrich:
 JM> pity no one told my microcom deskport fast + as for parrallel being
 JM> microsfot windows only .... again you should tell my microcom, it worked
 JM> in parallel mode in ms dos amd os/2, here the drivers were reall ratty
 JM> beta types but they still worked better than anything  (full public
 JM> release) i saw for any microsoft windows versions. thye (microcom) were
 JM> working on a unix driver as well, still are i think.
Interesting..the only drivers I knew about were for Windows.. :) Then again, 
since I run Fidonet software, it wouldn't interface well... :(
 JM> ps part of the reason for the poarrallel port 'gimmick' was to get 
round
 JM> the 'slow serial' ports, well now witht he easy availability of
 JM> ns16550afn clones allowing real operating systems to run thier serial
 JM> ports at 115k2 or even 230k or 430k thier was no real need to persue the
 JM> technology, no maatter how 'promicing'.
And the fact that internal modems are becoming more popular and that they 
have the UART built in.... :)
        John
... A wock is what you thwow at a wabbit.
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